Bio
Roland Paris is
University Research Chair in International Security and Governance
at the University of Ottawa, founding Director
of the
Centre for International Policy
Studies, and Associate Professor in the
Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs. His research interests are
in the fields of international security, international governance
and foreign policy.
Before joining the
University of Ottawa in 2006, he was Director of Research at the
Conference Board of Canada, the country's largest think tank; foreign policy advisor in the Department of
Foreign Affairs and the Privy Council Office of the Canadian
government; Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
University of Colorado-Boulder; and Visiting Researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has won two
awards for public service and four awards for teaching.
Paris' writings have appeared in leading academic journals including International Security and International Studies Quarterly. His book At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2004) won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving Global Order and the International Studies Association's prize for best book on multilateralism. He has co-edited two other volumes on peacebuilding, and is co-editor of the Security & Governance book series at Routledge.
In 2012 Paris was appointed a Global Ethics Fellow by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and a member of the board of directors of the World University Service of Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto.